I’ve left PDP… I’m close to joining APC-Daniel Bwala
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Daniel Bwala, former spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar 2023 election campaign, says he is no longer a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Bwala spoke in a chat with Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday.
He added that he is “very close” to joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“I am not a member of the PDP. Yes, I have left the PDP,” he said.
Ex-Vice President Atiku Hails, Celebrates Soyinka’s 90th Birthday
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Atiku in a birthday message posted on his X platform account on Saturday said, “To truly celebrate Prof Wole Soyinka, You Must Set Forth at Dawn. And that would be after a Telephone Conversation.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has hailed nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, on his 90th birthday celebration.
Referencing some of Soyinka’s notable literary works, Atiku in a birthday message posted on his X platform account on Saturday said, “To truly celebrate Prof Wole Soyinka, You Must Set Forth at Dawn. And that would be after a Telephone Conversation.
“The man of Ake, despite all the Trials of Brother Jero, and at a prime age of 90, remains a virile hunter in our Forest of a Thousand Daemons.
FG awards $21m contract to meter 187 oil stations
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The Federal Executive Council announced the award of a $21m contract for the metering of 187 crude oil flow stations in Nigeria, to properly account for the country’s production and exports.
It also disclosed that the council awarded another contract for the deployment of software that would enable the government to monitor the movement of Nigeria’s crude from the point of loading of every cargo in Nigeria up to the point of the cargo’s destination.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja, stated that the initiatives would further give clarity on the volumes of crude produced in-country as well as the amount exported to other nations.
Fuel Subsidy Removal By Your Government Has Achieved Nothing, Nigerian Students, NANS Slams Tinubu
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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has lambasted the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government saying its removal of the fuel subsidy has achieved no result.
The national students body noted that the subsidy removal regime had only brought untold hardships to Nigerians and created fuel scarcity instead of making fuel available to Nigerians.
The students body stated this in a statement by NANS National Clerk of the Senate, Abdul-Yekinn Odunayo in Abeokuta on Saturday.